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Kirsten Jensen (Ph.D. ’07, Art History), the Gerry and Marguerite Lenfest chief curator of the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, PA, is featured in the Philadelphia Inquirer online. Read more

In an op-ed in the Baltimore Business Journal, Ahu Yildirmaz (Ph.D. ’97, Economics), co-head of the ADP Research Institute, suggests three steps for recruiting and retaining manufacturing talent. Read more

When institutional politics and the pressure to secure tenure bog me down, I try to remember how lucky I am to have landed a tenure-track position at UC-Riverside. I get to live near Los Angeles,... Read more

Ahead of the Office of Career Planning and Professional Development's Alumni Roundtable, the GC spoke to Marilyn Puder-York about the advice she would offer to students who are thinking about careers, particularly in non-academic settings. Read more

In a lavish profile, Gabay (Ph.D. ’14, Urban Education) talks about his transition from self-described “class clown” to beloved English teacher at Brooklyn Democracy Academy, a transfer school for under-credited students whose education had been interrupted. Read more

American universities awarded a record number of Ph.D.s in 2015 — with the Graduate Center among the top 10 institutions awarding doctorates to members of underrepresented minority groups, according to new federal data presented in Inside Higher Ed. Read more

Lee A. Feinstein (M.A. ’97, Political Science), who has served in high-level positions in foreign affairs and diplomacy for more than two decades, has been appointed by President Barack Obama to the council of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Read more

Lawrence Cappello (Ph.D. ’16, History) explores what a Trump presidency could mean for privacy rights in a new essay for The Hill, in which he argues that no candidate since Richard Nixon has been “so fiercely committed to portraying the nation as an unsafe and lawless society.” Read more

Maggie Nelson (Ph.D. ’04, English), an award-winning writer known for nonfiction works such as 2015’s The Argonauts, has been named a 2016 MacArthur Fellow by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.Read more